# GLM-5 vs Qwen3.6 Plus

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GLM-5 and Qwen3.6 Plus across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/glm-5-vs-qwen3-6-plus
- Last updated: October 6, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 29
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GLM-5 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Qwen3.6 Plus leads overall 53.72 to 53.53.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 53.3 for GLM-5 and 61.3 for Qwen3.6 Plus.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is DeepPlanning in Agentic, with scores of 14.6% and 41.5%.
- Qwen3.6 Plus is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Qwen3.6 Plus also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Z.AI | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 53.53 | 53.72 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 36 | 48 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.00 / $3.20 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 39.1 (Estimated · #61/120)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 33.8 (Supported · #75/120)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 56.2% | 61.6% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| Claw-Eval | 57.7% | 58.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| QwenClawBench | 54.1% | 57.2% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| τ³-bench results | 65.6% | 70.7% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| DeepPlanning | 14.6% | 41.5% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| Toolathlon | 38% | 39.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MCP Atlas | 31.1% | 48.2% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MCP-Tasks | 60.8% | 74.1% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| WideResearch | 69.8% | 74.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| CyberGym | 43.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 50.99% | 50.60% | GLM-5 |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 44.3% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 18.0% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 53.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 39 (Estimated · #65/144)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 41.7 (Supported · #59/144)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.8% | 78.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 72.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.1% | 56.6% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SWE Multilingual | 73.3% | 73.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| SWE-Rebench | 62.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 74.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 25.56% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 73.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 53.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 61.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 60.8% | 62% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| AI-Needle | 63.3% | 68.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 67.2 (#23/49)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 78.8% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.0% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 68.2% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 81.5% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 96.9% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 48.4 (Estimated · #75/173)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 52.5 (Supported · #62/173)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 86% | 90.4% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| GPQA-D | 86.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 66.8% | 71.6% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.7% | 88.5% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 85.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 50.4% | 28.8% | GLM-5 |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.5% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 93.3% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Qwen3.6 Plus
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 89.5 (#6/16)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 93.8 (#4/16)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 83.1% | 84.7% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| NOVA-63 | 55.1% | 57.9% | Qwen3.6 Plus |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 87.2 (#31/125)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 82.5 (#48/125)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.6% | 94.3% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Qwen3.6 Plus
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56.5 (#7/7)
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 62 (#5/7)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Qwen3.6 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.8% | 95.3% | GLM-5 |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | 93.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 97.5% | 96.7% | GLM-5 |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 96.9% | 94.6% | GLM-5 |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 86.4% | 87.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| MMAnswerBench | 82.5% | 83.8% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 16.434% | 26.207% | Qwen3.6 Plus |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 2.100% | 8.333% | Qwen3.6 Plus |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, GLM-5 or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between GLM-5 and Qwen3.6 Plus?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 53.3 for GLM-5 and 61.3 for Qwen3.6 Plus.

### How many benchmarks does GLM-5 cover on BenchLM?

GLM-5 currently has 36 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.6 Plus cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6 Plus currently has 48 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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